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Child Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but…
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and…
- Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is…
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and…
- I was with book, as a woman is with child.
- And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and…
- I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I…
- He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it…
- Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's…
- And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came…
- Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
- But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.
- We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized…
- And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will…
- A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns…
- When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door.…
- I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor…
- Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at…
- But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right –…
- God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a…
- Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
- The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…
- You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for…
More Child Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. — Gaston Bachelard
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that… — Enid Bagnold
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
- There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. — James A. Baldwin
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
- When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky… — Joyce Banda
- It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into… — Tyra Banks